Bull-Carlton Family

By Larry Childs This cemetery is located in Monroe County Ga. on Monticello Road , State highway 83 on the left side of the road coming
from Forsyth to Monticello Ga.  Just before you get to the bridge at the Towaliga river (south side of River and left side of road).
If you go over the bridge you passed it.

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William Bull
Died 30, 1846
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Mildred Gibson Willis Bull
(see notes below)
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Dr. I. M. H. Carlton S. D.
Oct 17, 1824 (calculated on age at death)
Died February 1851
age 26 yrs., 3 mos. 20 days.
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Overview
There are three marked Burials there and maybe three others I am not sure.

There is a very large monument (Carlton) about eight feet high that can be easily seen from the road about 100 feet into the woods. The cemetery over looks the river.

There appears to be and infant size unmarked one as well. This burial is next to Mildred

In memory of I. M. H. Carlton, MD, SD, died Feb 6, 1851, age 26 yrs., 3 mos. 20 days. A member of Pleasant Ridge Lodge 103 F and AM Macon County, Ga. (drowned in Towaliga). NOTE:  told that he was going to see someone and the river was up and he tried to cross on his horse and drowned

In 1850 Census - Macon County listed with Dr. Bedford J. Head 32 Carlton, I.M.H. is age 23

NOTE:
Wm H. Bull married  Mildred Gibson 22 Jul 1818 Wilkes Co., GA.  This was her second marriage.  Her first was to George Willis before 1807.  George Willis died 5 Nov 1816 Wilkes Co., GA. After Wm H Bull died, she married 1848 Jasper Co., GA to Aquilla Phelps.

(Information from: Barbara Waldrop [email protected] )


Mildred Gibson Willis Bull Phelps was an ancestor of most of the many people of Monroe County who are  Willis descendants. She was a daughter of John Gibson who died in
1827 in Wilkes County Georgia and his wife Mildred (Millie) Holladay Gibson.

Her first husband was George Willis who died 1816 in Wilkes County Georgia. He was a son of James Willis of Virginia who died 1813 in Wilkes County and his first wife Ann/Nancy.

They had sons:
Owen J willis,
George A Willis,
John G Willis

Mildred Gibson Willis married 2nd William H Bull (he is buried in the Carlton-Bull Cemetery Mildred married William H Bull 1818 in Wilkes County and they had several
children who lived to adulthood. 

Mildred Gibson Willis Bull married 3rd Acquilla Phelps 

Matilda Gibson (Mildred's sister) married 1st David Allison who was guardian of Mildred's three Willis sons. Matilda, who was Mildred's sister, married 3 more times. Matilda was
married last to James Lamar

Children in the cemetery are said to be a child of Mildred and William Bull and a Bryant child. I don't know who the Bryant child  could be.  One of Mildred's sons, John Gibson
Willis b 10 Jun 1810 Wilkes County, GA had a daughter by his second wife who married a Bryant. Could this Bryant child be Mildred's Great Grandchild? [I have Mary Lena Willis m. Hiram J. Bryant in Butts Co., GA but no date. Mary Lena was b. 1874]  

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